Arcadia Quote by Alcaeus

“The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped…

— Charles Dickens

“They drank from a spring which filled an ancient stone trough behind the ruin. Beyond it lay overgrown beds and plants John had never…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not merely a dance of fun…

— C.S. Lewis

There were Arcadians here, Katagaria, Dark-Hunters, demons, humans, and who knew what else. By rights none of them should get along and yet they…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“From black-rimmed plates they ate turtle soup and eaten Russian rye bread, ripe Turkish olives, caviar, salted mullet-roe, smoked Frankfurt black puddings, game in…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Predators the two were equals on different fronts. Alpha, and beta; wolves fed, fucked, and bled hard, and they lived up to the name.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

“The endars were peaceful creatures. The green fur wasn’t fur at all; it was moss that grew from their skin. They lived underneath old…

— Ilona Andrews

“Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American…

— Charles C. Mann

“Most meals that came from the forest were brought by the women – fish, mushrooms, crab, bamboo shoots, some kuccha or the other. The…

— Madhu Ramnath

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more…

— Henry David Thoreau

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

— Herman E. Daly

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes,…

— Henry David Thoreau